Posted on 12/06/2015 9:39:14 PM PST by Rusty0604
A Texas mother claims a hospital is seeking to end the life of a her son who is a fully conscious patient. The patient’s mother says that a hospital administrative death panel is “Playing God†in deciding whether her son has the “quality of life†to live.
Her son, Christopher David Dunn, 46, a fully-conscious former peace officer, is receiving life-sustaining care. Hospital officials in Houston are fighting to stop that care.
The man, his mother, and his lawyers, have filed a lawsuit in an attempt to save the man’s life. His attorney, Joe Nixon, told Breitbart Texas, “A criminal on death row in Texas has more rights than a patient in a Texas hospital.†He says a Texas statute denies a patient all due process rights and is unconstitutional.
A video (below) made by Ms. Kelly on December 2nd and produced with the help of a Houston-based pro-life organization, Texas Right to Life, shows that Dunn understands the questions asked of him, and he communicates that he wants to live.
Dunn is a former sheriff’s deputy and has worked as a Homeland Security officer but had no health insurance when he got sick. He has been in the hospital for eight weeks since a noncancerous mass was found where his small intestine connects to the pancreas. Ms. Kelly says the mass is squeezing off the small intestine and is affecting his liver and kidneys.
“When they found out that Chris did not have insurance, they said they were done,†Chris’ mother claimed.
She says the hospital wants to turn off the breathing machine and administer a dose of morphine and another drug she did not know the name of. She was told it would take only three to five minutes for Chris to die if the drugs were administered.
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After living in TX for 7 years, I discovered that ‘Texas freedom’ is all smoke and mirrors.
I went back to Arizona where the citizens are truly free. Let the Texas flag-wave themselves into the dirt.
(If any Texan wants to argue with me... answer this first. How is it that I have a lawful firearm in my purse without a license to conceal carry in Arizona? How are my property taxes and utilities more than 50% less than they were in Texas? (That difference more than makes up for the little we pay in state income tax) How is it that, in Arizona, I’m driving a lawfully registered vehicle which hasn’t been inspected in more than 3 years? How is it that, when hubs and I put our new house on our land, we can easily put in a grey water system without jumping through government loopholes? Stop peeing on my head and tellin’ me that it’s raining, Texas.)
She is trying to get him *treatment*, not just palliative care.
I went through something like this in a Texas hospital when my son was a teenager. It took me screaming at the top of my lungs that I was going to sue the sh** out of each and every person in the room AND the hospital for them to transfer my son to the children’s hospital in Austin so he could get treatment.
A vent or a Trach with a portable oxygen generator? Second biggie is why the need for one? I see him with a Trach. An oxygen generator can be hooked up via a trach. Quadriplegia comes with complications and being very vulnerable to infections. In my wife's case of her 29 years of quad her body contorted and began pressing on her left lung thus the reason the doctors could not fully suction it. On top of that she had Asthma, mild emphysema, and the Pulmonary Doc told her several years earlier her lungs were likely beginning to crystallize.
For Christopher Reeve or any other high level quad his life expectancy was short. He for as high a level of quad as he was is an exception & not the norm. It was the same with my wife who was a partial or incomplete quad at her C-5/C-6 level. Her initial prognoses was 5 years and she did not have lung disease at onset of her quadriplegia. She beat the odds five times over thanks to dedicated doctors. But up till the last month of her life she was not on oxygen. She developed bacterial pneumonia on her contorted side which was pressing on her lung.
If what Reeve was on was in fact a respirator he had the whirlwhistle to afford a full time Respiratory Therapist and nurse at home. Each person is different. When my wife was in the hospital it was in ICU and at one point 5 were on Vents. She was there almost a month as was one other on almost as long as her.
The plain and simple truth is this and I didn't just take the doctors word I looked it up. There are limited places a person long term ventilator dependent can go. That is due to the staffing requirements plus the fact very few persons wish to live out the rest of their days far away from family in an institution. The nearest facility to us was nearly 500 miles away.
I don't think we know fully what is going on with this man. The doctors and hospital are obligated to privacy laws. His family is not. Meaning we are getting one side of this.
BTW A person may be able to breath even up to 24 hours while a Ventilator is in the Static Mode. That inflates the lungs and allows the person to breath on their own. That is the process they use to slowly take a person off of one. They see how long they can breath with it in static, then if successful turned off.
TX has the second or third highest abortion rate in the nation, but I don’t know if that is percent or numerical murders in the womb. They also fund abortions with state funds, but I don’t know how that works exactly any more.
They don’t believe in Judgment Day, just Bill, Hillary, and Barack days.
Didn’t some famous disabled person advocate the murder of Terri? I can’t recall who it was, and I may be wrong.
Yes, the majority of Americans are spiritually insane, but they don’t know it. They think they are liberal and rational.
I guess I never should have voted for Jorge in 2000.
PING!
Aren’t we in the middle of the sign up time for Obamacare? Get him signed up now. The hospital wouldn’t have a let to stand on.
After all, he’d be accepted even with his pre-existing condition.
Yep, and this is how Zerocare works nationally too.
From article: //Hospital officials are fighting to stop his treatment and *have filed for a court to appoint a guardian to make decisions for him* (!!). Dunn filed suit but the hospital *filed their own lawsuit asking that a guardian be appointed for Dunn*. Dunn and his mother, Evelyn Kelly, have been making choices regarding his care.//
I do not think the word “guardian” means what the hospital officials think it means!
Thanks for the ping.
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